In Thursdays Division 1 pennant East bowled its sixth outright with its three rink defeat of Longford and Cressy made it two straight  wins beating Launceston on two for ten.  Kath McLean (s),  Pat McLean,  Kathy Tuting  and  Wendy Phillips' 14 shots-up blocked the outright.  
North bounced back from consecutive losses to take the twelve pointer at Trevallyn,  Deloraine's Kay Walters (s),  Julie Scott,  Debbie Youd  and  Rits Eastley's rink locked in two for their team in its loss at Kings Meadows and going quietly about its business Invermay locked in its fifth outright by beating Exeter.  
This week Invermay  and  Deloraine welcome Kings Meadows  and East respectively.  
Meadows not only won last seasons corresponding fixtures  but toppled Invermay in the grand final -  with a bit to prove the home-side is good enough  to  finally get retribution.  
Memories never fade and those of past finals failures must still haunt Deloraine  and  East.  The result here could go down to the important rink draw.  
To stay in the mix Exeter must use its home advantage to topple Cressy and  despite the contrary, bottom sides do play for sheep stations so Longford and North should not underestimate visiting Trevallyn  and Launceston.
 
In division 2 Deloraine made it back-to-backs taking ten on two by 17 overall at North and Bridport slipped into third  courtesy of its ten pointer versus West.  Marie Cettolin (s),  Elsie DeWinter,  Kay Dolbey  and  Suzanne Waller's rink locked in two for West.  
Despite winning on two neither Georgetown  nor Westbury had enough in reserve to take more than four points each  from East  and  Kings Meadows respectively  and  Scottsdale's Pat Bennett (s),  Lexie Knight,  Jan Chilcott  and Sylvia Petterwood's rink held on winning by two shots to prevent Launceston's clean sweep.   
In the game of round 8  first and second clash when Westbury plays at East.  East may play on its synthetic and if so the viistors must be prepared for the speed change and  how it can alter the game.  
Playing at Deloraine and with five points separating them, bottom sides Georgetown  and  Deloraine need points to clear themselves from the lower rungs and at Kings Meadows West cannot afford another loss if its wants to remain in the four.  
Launceston is beginning to settle and will test the mettle of visiting Bridport and knowing how its home synthetic runs, Scottsdale will be in with a show against North.